Daniel Barenboim 1942 Leo R Sandy Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim 1942 Leo R. Sandy
Daniel Barenboim is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain He is the general music director of the Berlin State Opera, and the Staatskapelle Berlin; he previously served as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and La Scala in Milan
Barenboim is known for his work with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Sevillebased orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians, and as a resolute critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories Barenboim has received many awards and prizes, including an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, France’s Légion d'honneur both as a Commander and Grand Officier, and the German Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz and Willy Brandt Award
Together with the Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, he was given Spain's Prince of Asturias Concord Award. He has won seven Grammy awards for his work and discography. Barenboim is a polyglot, fluent in Spanish, Hebrew, English, French, Italian, and German Daniel Barenboim was born in 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Argentinian-Jewish parents Aida (née Schuster) and Enrique Barenboim
He started piano lessons at the age of five with his mother, continuing to study with his father, who remained his only teacher. On 19 August 1950, at the age of seven, he gave his first formal concert in his hometown, Buenos Aires In 1952, Barenboim's family moved to Israel. Two years later, in the summer of 1954, his parents took him to Salzburg to take part in Igor Markevitch's conducting classes On 15 June 1967, Barenboim and British cellist Jacqueline du Pré were married in Jerusalem at a Western Wall ceremony, Du Pré having converted to Judaism
Du Pré retired from music in 1973, after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). The marriage lasted until du Pré's death in 1987 After performing in Buenos Aires, Barenboim made his international debut as a pianist at the age of 10 in 1952 in Vienna and Rome Between 1975 and 1989, he was music director of the Orchestre de Paris, where he conducted much contemporary music Barenboim was named music director designate of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1989, and succeeded Sir Georg Solti as its music director in 1991, a post he held until 17 June 2006
In 2009, he conducted the New Year Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic. [30] In his New Year message, he expressed the hope that 2009 would be a year for peace and for human justice in the Middle East In September 2001, a public relations associate for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where Barenboim was the Music Director, revealed that season ticket -holders were about evenly divided about the wisdom of Barenboim's decision to play Wagner in Jerusalem A Knesset committee subsequently called for Barenboim to be declared a persona non grata in Israel until he apologized for conducting Wagner's music
In 2005, Barenboim gave the inaugural Edward Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University, entitled "Wagner, Israel and Palestine” The speech caused controversy; the Jewish Telegraphic Agency criticized Barenboim for being against Palestinian terrorist attacks but also justifying them; and saying that Israeli actions contributed to the rise of international anti. Semitism Barenboim, a supporter of human rights, including Palestinian rights, is an outspoken critic of Israel's conservative governments and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories
In an interview with the British music critic Norman Lebrecht in 2003, Barenboim accused Israel of behaving in a manner which was, "morally abhorrent and strategically wrong", and, "putting in danger the very existence of the state of Israel” In 1967, at the start of the Six-Day War, Barenboim and du Pré had performed for the Israeli troops on the front lines, as well as during the Yom Kippur war in 1973. During the Gulf War, he and an orchestra performed in Israel in gas masks Barenboim has argued publicly for a Two-state solution for Israel and Palestinians
In a November 2014, opinion piece in The Guardian, he wrote that the "ongoing security of the state of Israel. . . is only possible in the long term if the future of the Palestinian people, too, is secured in its own sovereign state. If this does not happen, the wars and history of that region will be constantly repeated and the unbearable stalemate will continue” In 1999, Barenboim and Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said jointly founded the West– Eastern Divan Orchestra
This initiative brings together, every summer, a group of young classical musicians from Israel, the Palestinian territories and Arab countries to study, perform and to promote mutual reflection and understanding Barenboim and Said jointly received the 2002 Prince of Asturias Awards for their work in "improving understanding between nations. " Together they wrote the book Parallels and Paradoxes, based on a series of public discussions held at New York's Carnegie Hall
In September 2005, presenting the book written with Said, Barenboim refused to be interviewed by uniformed Israel Defense Forces Radio reporter Dafna Arad, considering the wearing of the uniform insensitive for the occasion. In response, Israeli Education Minister Limor Livnat of the Likud party called him "a real Jew hater" and "a real anti. Semite” After being invited for the fourth time to the Doha Festival for Music and Dialogue in Qatar with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra in 2012, Barenboim's invitation was cancelled by the authorities because of "Sensitivity to the developments in the Arab world. " There had been a campaign against him in the Arab media, [accusing him of "being a Zionist"
In May 2004, Barenboim was awarded the Wolf Prize at a ceremony at the Israeli Knesset despite initial resistance from education minister, Livnat. The ceremony was boycotted by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, also a member of the Likud party Barenboim’s acceptance speech: I am asking today with deep sorrow: Can we, despite all our achievements, ignore the intolerable gap between what the Declaration of Independence promised and what was fulfilled, the gap between the idea and the realities of Israel? Does the condition of occupation and domination over another people fit the Declaration of Independence? Is there any sense in the independence of one at the expense of the fundamental rights of the other?
Can the Jewish people whose history is a record of continued suffering and relentless persecution, allow themselves to be indifferent to the rights and suffering of a neighboring people? Can the State of Israel allow itself an unrealistic dream of an ideological end to the conflict instead of pursuing a pragmatic, humanitarian one based on social justice? Israel's President. Moshe Katsav and Education Minister Livnat criticized Barenboim for his speech. Livnat accused him of attacking the state of Israel, to which Barenboim replied that he had not done so, but that he instead had cited the text of the Israeli Declaration of Independence
Barenboim has performed several times in the West Bank: at Bir Zeit University in 1999 and several times in Ramallah In January 2008, after performing in Ramallah, Barenboim accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship, becoming the first Jewish Israeli citizen to be offered the status. Barenboim said he hoped it would serve as a public gesture of peace Some Israelis criticized Barenboim's decision to accept Palestinian citizenship. The parliamentary faction chairman of the Shas party demanded that Barenboim be stripped of his Israeli citizenship, but the Interior Minister told the media that "the matter is not even up for discussion"
In May 2011, Barenboim conducted the "Orchestra for Gaza" composed of volunteers from the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Staatskapelle, the Orchestra of La Scala in Milan, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Orchestre de Paris—at al. Mathaf Cultural House The concert, held in Gaza City, was co-ordinated in secret with the United Nations. The orchestra flew from Berlin to Vienna and from there to El Arish on a plane chartered by Barenboim, entering the Gaza Strip at the Egyptian Rafah Border Crossing
The musicians were escorted by a convoy of United Nations vehicles. [93] The concert, the first performance by an international classical ensemble in the Strip, was attended by an invited audience of several hundred schoolchildren and NGO workers, who greeted Barenboim with applause The orchestra played Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Symphony No. 40, also familiar to an Arab audience as the basis of one of the songs of the famous Arab singer Fairuz In his speech, Barenboim said: "Everyone has to understand that the Palestinian cause is a just cause therefore it can be only given justice if it is achieved without violence. Violence can only weaken the righteousness of the Palestinian cause"
Daniel Barenboim met English cellist Jacqueline du Pré on New Year's Eve 1966. Shortly after the end of the Six-Day War, they flew to Jerusalem. She converted to Judaism, and they were married on 15 June 1967 at the Western Wall. [97] She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in October 1973, and died in October 1987 In the early 1980 s, Barenboim had a relationship with the Russian pianist Elena Bashkirova. The two lived together and had two children (David Arthur Barenboim, born in Paris in 1982, now managerwriter for hip-hop bands, and Michael Barenboim, born in Paris in 1985, now a violinist) and were married in 1988, a year after Jacqueline's death
Borenboim has won numerous awards, including Grammys, as well as six honorary degrees – Doctor of Music, University of Oxford, and Doctor of Philosophy at Hebrew University of Jerusalem In 2009 Konex Foundation from Argentina granted him the Diamond Konex Award for Classical Music as the most important musician in the last decade In 2012, he was voted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame
Quotes The French Revolution gave us three. . . powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas. . . are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism
Quotes cont’d US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan
Videos Courage in Music Daniel Barenboim’s Speech to the Prom’s Audience
References Courage in Music. Retrieved from https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=04 Ymzdm. TUSI Daniel Barenboim Speech to the Proms Audience. Retrieved from https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=0 o. NWp. KBP 6 b. U Daniel Barenboim. Retrieved from https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Daniel_Barenboim Top 25 Quotes by Daniel Borenboim. Retrieved from http: //www. azquotes. com/author/917 Daniel_Barenboim
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